Category Archives: Atma Vichara

Living A Disproved Life

September 18, 2009 – 3:34 pm

Robert Anton Wilson is one of my favorite authors, social commentators, and American mystics.  His writing always manages to entertain, inform, and illuminate my gray matter.  In the first chapter of Prometheus Rising is an amazing essay: The Thinker & The Prover.
Using that essay as a jump off point I would like to talk about [...]

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Religion for Modernity

August 14, 2009 – 3:09 pm

The great gift of Modernity was the differentiation of the three primary spheres of human concern: the I, We, and It realms also known as the Beautiful, the Good, and the True. The disaster was the realm of the True being so convenient, successful, powerful and bratty that it collapsed the other two realms into [...]

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The Great Answer(s)

July 24, 2009 – 6:45 pm

Life is a mystery. That much seems certain. No matter how you look at it, eventually you come up against a wall of “I don’t know.” That’s what the mystics through the ages have told us. Still, we keep looking, hoping to find some great answer to the question life presents.
The funny thing about [...]

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Enlightenment (whatever that means)

July 16, 2009 – 3:22 pm

Warning: What follows is a bit of a rant. If that’s not your vibe as of this now, move along. Have a great day!
First, for the non-rant. Check out this cool article over at Thank God for Evolution, Reality: God’s Secular Name. Most excellent. My favorite is [...]

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Holding Against The Stream

July 2, 2009 – 4:44 pm

First for an oldy but a goody: All things are impermanent. That is their nature. Everything, everywhere, in all occasions, changes. The change may be slow, or it may be fast. It may be major, or it may be minor. It may be by choice, or by conditions. It may be wanted, or feared. But, [...]

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